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2nd of May 1993 News
Nieuws zoals het verscheen op de voorpagina van de New York Times op 2 mei 1993
THE MEDIA BUSINESS: Press; Newspaper publishers consider a heretical new idea: just how dated their products are
Date: 03 May 1993
By William Glaberson
William Glaberson
"YOU guys are irrelevant," a quick-talking man said in a room full of newspaper publishers here on Wednesday morning. Then, to drive the point home, he added, "You are extinct." The speaker was Alf Nucifora, an Atlanta-based marketing consultant, not a newspaperman. But none of the publishers in the room, and it was a big one, rose to challenge his assertion.
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New York Gas Price Off
Date: 03 May 1993
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Average statewide self-service gasoline prices fell in recent weeks to their lowest levels in a year, the New York State Energy Commissioner's office reported Friday. A retail price survey for the April 16-29 period showed that self-service prices for regular unleaded gasoline fell 1.3 cents, to $1.17 a gallon; for middle-grade unleaded, 1.2 cents, to $1.28, and for premium unleaded, 1.3 cents, to $1.36.
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Office Costs Are Faulted
Date: 03 May 1993
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
International financial institutions must avoid wasteful spending on their offices, Treasury Secretary Lloyd Bentsen said on Saturday. His comments were made after the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development was widely criticized for spending $80 million on renovations of its offices, which included new furniture and decorative touches in Carrara marble.
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Corrections
Date: 02 May 1993
An essay by Terry Anderson in The Times Magazine on April 4 about the Freedom of Information Act overstated the rarity of such laws. A number of countries -- including Canada, Australia and France -- have similar ones; the American law is not unique.
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News Summary
Date: 03 May 1993
International A2-11 SERB LEADER SIGNS PEACE PLAN After months of talks and pressure from Belgrade and Washington, the leader of Bosnia's Serbs, Radovan Karadzic, signed an international peace plan intended to end the civil war in Bosnia. A1
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NEWS SUMMARY
Date: 02 May 1993
International 3-21 CLINTON BACKS USE OF AIRPOWER
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Frankfurt Notebook : Reporting Rate Changes
Date: 03 May 1993
By Brandon Mitchener, International Herald Tribune
Brandon Mitchener
The moments immediately preceding news conferences at the Bundesbank's guest house have long been chaotic, with a score of intensely competitive reporters mobbing anyone who walked into the building with a folder that looked like it might contain the key
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Market Place; Inquiring minds want to know if Enquirer/Star can revive sales
Date: 03 May 1993
By Leslie Wayne
Leslie Wayne
ENQUIRER/STAR GROUP INC. -- the supermarket tabloid publishing empire, which specializes in reports on space aliens and Elvis sightings -- is capturing the fancy of another set of eerie beings: Wall Street analysts. While The National Enquirer and The Star may not be popular reading on Wall Street, some analysts are betting on their moneymaking potential. Kindly called "celebrity journalism," The National Enquirer and The Star, have a combined circulation of seven million. Only TV Guide is a more popular weekly publication. Among women aged 18 to 34, The Enquirer and The Star are the No. 1 read. Their journalism may be easy to dismiss -- Cher's latest affair, Roseanne's weight loss and the feud between Liz and Raquel -- but their financial underpinnings are hard to ignore. The parent company, created by a 1991 initial public offering, has an improving balance sheet, strong cash flow and a bold new pricing strategy.
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Belgrade's Serbs Are Skeptical On Peace Move
Date: 03 May 1993
By Stephen Kinzer
Stephen Kinzer
The capital of what remains of Yugoslavia reacted skeptically today to news that the Bosnian Serb leader had signed a peace treaty in Greece that could lead to the end of the war in Bosnia and Herzegovina. In street-corner interviews, Serbs here said they doubted that the treaty would lead to a quick and lasting piece.
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Lisa Goodrich, Harlan Swift Jr.
Date: 02 May 1993
Lisa D. Goodrich, an account executive for the Vail Daily News, and Harlan J. Swift Jr., an account representative for Western Slope Supplies, a restaurant-supply company, both in Vail, Colo., were married yesterday. The Rev. Dr. James A. Christopher performed the ceremony at the First Congregational Church in Bloomfield, Conn. Mrs. Swift graduated from Lake Forest College and received a master's degree in public relations from Emerson College in Boston. She is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Hoyt J. Goodrich of Bloomfield. Her father is a founding partner and the managing director of BCI Advisors, an investment-management firm in Teaneck, N.J. Her mother, Sara K. Goodrich, is the athletic and alumnae coordinator at the Ethel Walker School in Simsbury, Conn.
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